'Spider-Man' Spin-Off Movies Will Be Released Before 'Amazing Spider-Man 4'

With Sinister
Six and Venom movies planned in
addition to more Amazing Spider-Man sequels,
the big future plans for Sony's Spider-Man Cinematic Universe are
very clear - but what remains a mystery is exactly when the
studio will be releasing their titles and in what order.

It's never been clear exactly which of the titles will be coming
before the other, but now producers Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach
have shed a little bit of light on the situation.

Director Marc Webb's final installment in the
franchise, The Amazing Spider-Man 3 is
scheduled to come out on June 10, 2016, but will The
Amazing Spider-Man 4 be the next title to follow it?
Not according to Den of Geek's interview with the
aforementioned producers, which says that the studio has plans to
unfurl the comic book movie spin-offs before beginning work on a
fourth Spider-Man film. Said Tolmach,

"Before we know what we do with Spider-Man 4,
we're going to do Sinister
Six, Venom and Spider-Man
3. There is going to be a lot of crossover in those
movies. So we're just not at Spider-Man 4,
because we still have a whole other Spider-Man movie and two
other movies. So we don't know yet what [Spider-Man 4] is going
to be"

Adding an interesting detail to this mix is the already announced
May 4, 2018 weekend that the studio has already acquired. Since
the studio claimed the date we've assumed that it would
be The Amazing Spider-Man 4, but
apparently that's not the case. Tolmach also told Den of Geek
that May 4, 2018 will be a Spider-Man-related movie, but
not The Amazing Spider-Man 4.

We can pretty much safely assume that the May 2018 title is
either Venom or Sinister Six,
but which one? Could Venom be a part of the Sinister Six and then
move on for his own solo movie? Or will Venom get a solo movie
that leads him to the Sinister Six? If either one of those turns
out to be true, will the earlier title be released in 2018, or
possibly in 2017? In case you couldn't already tell, this whole
situation is still packed with unanswered questions.

While a great deal of Spider-Man's future on the big screen
remains a hazy mystery, there's a good chance that the whole
picture will become a lot clearer in less than a month. By
then The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be
out in theaters worldwide and will we all be able to create
informed speculation about what's coming in the next few years.
Until then, enjoy this trailer for the upcoming
blockbuster.